Master of Arts: Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (2005), English

Bachelor of Arts: Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (1999), English

and Psychology

Biography

Dr. DaMaris B. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. In addition to studying under and taking workshops with writers such as Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Monifa Love-Asante, and Marita Golden, her development as a writer has also been enhanced by the institutional support of the The MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Key West Literary Seminar/Writers Workshops, Callaloo Literary Writers Workshop, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, The Project on the History of Black Writing, and Furious Flower Poetry Center.

Similar to her creative process, Dr. Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary and examines the intersections between literary criticism, cultural studies, and digital humanities. She has collaborated with other artists, such as Jennifer Rivera, in order to create companion paintings inspired by Hill's literary works.

As a writer, Hill engages in cultural productions; she creates a distinct archive. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, Hill contributes to the academic mission of five or more areas of study – creative writing, American literature and cultural studies, African American and Africana Studies, digital humanities (The Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media), and women’s and gender studies. Her research stands in the intersections of these disciplinary studies. She is particularly interested in themes concerning memory and the cultural legacy of intersectionality. It is at the crossroads of race and gender, subjectivity and collectivity, that her creative and intellectual power is embodied, remembered and rendered - often using aesthetic practices associated with remix theories. In addition to the aforementioned, Hill has been practicing digital pedagogy for over 15 years.

Hill's first published book is a co-edited collection of pedagogical essays for the National Writing Project entitled National Writing Project 2008 Professional Writing Retreat Anthology. Her second published book is an edited volume of essays about American culture entitled The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland. Hill has also published \ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \ (Visible Textures) a short collection of poems that incorporates GSP technologies and archival maps. Hill has published a variety of essays, stories and poems in peer-reviewed publications. A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing is a memoir in verse/poetry manuscript that honors black women that have had experiences with incarceration, some of whom have organized resistance movements over the last two centuries. It is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. A sample media project that was born out of this manuscript, “Shut Up In My Bones”. Hill's media projects and poems continue to be recognized within national and international communities.

COMPLETED MONOGRAPHS IN CIRCULATION

1. Willows in the Spring, a novel (represented bySheedyLiterary Agency)

PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS

1. A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, memoir in verse/poetry (forthcoming Bloomsbury)

2. The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland. Lexington Books, 2016.